THE planned "rightsizing of the government" proposed by the Department of Budget and Management aims to "reduce the number of government agencies."

At first glance, this proposal seems to have some merit as it will save the government around 14.8 billion in personnel services, according to the computation of the new budget secretary, Amenah Pangandaman.

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